by Harry Duke * If you’re a fan of South Park and Team America: World Police, then the stage show Avenue Q should be right up your alley. It’s an adult send-up of Sesame Street, the children’s television classic where humans and puppets co-exist and life’s problems are acknowledged and solved with humor and song.…
When I see a show late in its run, or the run itself is short, I’ll take some time and provide a short take on the production… Bootycandy – Left Edge Theatre, Santa Rosa Pluses: script, performances Minuses: a bit disjointed, a bit long Playwright Robert O’Hara claims that every character in Bootycandy crossed his…
by Cari Lynn Pace * Playwright Robert O’Hara’s Bootcandy is a series of semi-autobiographical vignettes that take place on a bare stage (or a minimalist set), each delivering a biting and often hilarious look at supposedly real encounters throughout his life as a black gay person from childhood to present day. It’s definitely outrageous, often…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Dana Hunt and actor Dylan James Pereira from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Shark is Broken. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through April 11. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Theatrical adaptations of popular movies populate American theaters to an often-nauseating extent. Often transmogrified into musicals, producers mount them in the belief there’s a built-in audience guaranteed to show up and buy tickets en masse. While successful Bay Area runs of such shows as Mrs. Doubtfire and Back to the Future might be proving their…
Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre continues to push the boundaries for North Bay theatre audiences with another provocative production, this time with a show whose title is usually redacted in print. Steven Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat runs at The California though February 22. Guirgis, who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
From the very first word uttered on stage in POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive’, it’s clear you are in for a very atypical Sonoma County theatre presentation. The word is number four on George Carlin’s list of seven dirty words, and you will hear it, along…
My guest on the 12/05/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Laura Downing-Lee, cast member from the Left Edge Theatre production of POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through December 21. Click below to listen:…
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